When Nancy met Tommy: A down-on-your-luck AZ-01 love story
Remember Tom O’Halleran, the down-on-his-luck former Arizona state legislator who voters fired after the 2008 elections? He’s been desperate to get back into power ever since, first by unsuccessfully running for state senate as an independent in 2014, and is now about to announce a run for Congress in AZ-01 as a Democrat. Remember Nancy Pelosi, the down-on-her-luck former Speaker whose agenda was so toxic that voters fired her after the 2010 elections? Pelosi is so desperate to get back into power that she’s now telling Democrats to pretend to embrace Republican ideas to appeal to moderate voters.
Whether it’s Pelosi selling her so-called principles down the Colorado River to reclaim the Speaker’s gavel or O’Halleran switching his party registration to whatever party gives him a spot on the ballot, neither of them should get too excited. Voters in this Republican district will be made aware that Tom O’Halleran’s political beliefs were for sale and that Nancy Pelosi quickly bought them up. Now he’s the property of Nancy Pelosi, the DCCC, and their radical agenda.